Vertical movement in mare basins - Relation to mare emplacement, basin tectonics, and lunar thermal history

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Apr 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.1667s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, Apr. 10, 1979, p. 1667-1682.

Physics

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Lunar Evolution, Lunar Surface, Structural Basins, Tectonics, Thermal Stresses, Vertical Motion, Basalt, Lithosphere, Lunar Geology, Lunar Maps, Magma, Ring Structures, Spatial Distribution, Thermal Properties, Evolution, Radial Distance, Tectonism, Moon, Maria, Interior, Basins, Stress Patterns, Hypotheses, Rings, Lavas, Eruption, Ridges, Models, Mapping, Surface, Lunar, Volcanism, Thickness, Lithosphere, Rilles, Graben

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A hypothesis is developed that the spatial and temporal distributions of linear rilles and mare ridges in the mare regions of the moon are the products of two superposed stress systems: a local stress due to lithospheric loading by basalt fill in the mare basin, and a global thermal stress due to the thermal history of the lunar interior. Quantitative models for stress in the Serenitatis basin area, including the global thermal stress associated with lunar thermal history, are presented and used to account for the spatial distribution, the orientations, and the formation times of rilles and ridges in that region. The models provide a simple explanation for the localization of the most recent eruption sites of mare basalt magmas to mare basin edges.

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